Horst H. Simon

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Horst H. Simon is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Horst H. Simon has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Horst H. Simon's work include Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (15 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (12 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (7 papers). Horst H. Simon is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (15 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (12 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (7 papers). Horst H. Simon collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Horst H. Simon's co-authors include Mien‐Chie Hung, Christopher B. Hauser, Hua Chen, Brian Bates, Kuo-Fen Lee, Dennis D.M. O’Leary, Martin Gassmann, Rüdiger Klein, Cary Lai and Franca Casagranda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Horst H. Simon

30 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Requirement for neuregulin receptor erbB2 in neural and cardiac development

1995 1.0k citations Kuo-Fen Lee, Horst H. Simon et al. Nature profile →
Aberrant neural and cardiac development in mice lacking the ErbB4 neuregulin receptor

1995 896 citations Martin Gassmann, Horst H. Simon et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Horst H. Simon Germany	23	2.3k	1.4k	887	518	467	30	3.6k
Stefan Britsch Germany	22	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	588 0.7×	521 1.0×	298 0.6×	46	3.6k
Douglas L. Falls United States	20	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	761 0.9×	710 1.4×	142 0.3×	23	3.7k
Steven A. Crone United States	15	639 0.3×	528 0.4×	503 0.6×	353 0.7×	457 1.0×	24	2.1k
Philip M. Smallwood United States	37	5.4k 2.3×	1.2k 0.9×	369 0.4×	214 0.4×	102 0.2×	52	6.5k
Jean‐Léon Thomas France	39	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	892 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	61 0.1×	87	5.3k
David D. Eisenstat Canada	35	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	372 0.4×	1.3k 2.5×	52 0.1×	105	4.9k
Quenten Schwarz Australia	27	2.1k 0.9×	809 0.6×	400 0.5×	246 0.5×	93 0.2×	65	3.1k
Frédéric Charron Canada	34	4.3k 1.9×	1.9k 1.4×	239 0.3×	1.0k 1.9×	515 1.1×	67	6.0k
G. Giacomo Consalez Italy	35	2.0k 0.9×	723 0.5×	155 0.2×	454 0.9×	176 0.4×	93	3.3k
Stefano C. Previtali Italy	36	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	151 0.2×	437 0.8×	199 0.4×	104	4.0k

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Sgadó, Paola, et al.. (2012). The atypical homeoprotein Pbx1a participates in the axonal pathfinding of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons. Neural Development. 7(1). 24–24. 24 indexed citations

Simon, Horst H., et al.. (2010). Parkinson's disease candidate gene prioritization based on expression profile of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Journal of Biomedical Science. 17(1). 66–66. 4 indexed citations

Tripathi, Prem Prakash, Paola Sgadó, Manuela Scali, et al.. (2009). Increased susceptibility to kainic acid–induced seizures in Engrailed-2 knockout mice. Neuroscience. 159(2). 842–849. 62 indexed citations

Alavian, Kambiz N. & Horst H. Simon. (2009). Linkage of cDNA expression profiles of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons to a genome-wide in situ hybridization database. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 4(1). 6–6. 10 indexed citations

Simon, Horst H. & Kambiz N. Alavian. (2009). Transcriptional Regulation of Their Survival:. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 651. 66–72. 4 indexed citations

Thuret, Sandrine, et al.. (2007). Merging Mouse Transcriptome Analyses with Parkinson's Disease Linkage Studies. DNA Research. 14(2). 79–89. 6 indexed citations

Alavian, Kambiz N., Christian Schölz, & Horst H. Simon. (2007). Transcriptional regulation of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons: The full circle of life and death. Movement Disorders. 23(3). 319–328. 78 indexed citations

Sgadó, Paola, Lavinia Albéri, Geert M. J. Ramakers, et al.. (2006). Slow progressive degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons in postnatal Engrailed mutant mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(41). 15242–15247. 111 indexed citations

Simon, Horst H., et al.. (2006). The engrailed transcription factors and the mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons. PubMed. 47–55. 13 indexed citations

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Albéri, Lavinia, Paola Sgadó, & Horst H. Simon. (2004). Engrailed genes are cell-autonomously required to prevent apoptosis in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons. Development. 131(13). 3229–3236. 147 indexed citations

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Thuret, Sandrine, Kambiz N. Alavian, Martin Gassmann, et al.. (2004). The neuregulin receptor, ErbB4, is not required for normal development and adult maintenance of the substantia nigra pars compacta. Journal of Neurochemistry. 91(6). 1302–1311. 40 indexed citations

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Simon, Horst H., Christian Schölz, & Dennis D.M. O’Leary. (2004). Engrailed genes control developmental fate of serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons in mid- and hindbrain in a gene dose-dependent manner. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 28(1). 96–105. 54 indexed citations

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Thuret, Sandrine, et al.. (2004). Identification and developmental analysis of genes expressed by dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 25(3). 394–405. 33 indexed citations

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Simon, Horst H., Sandrine Thuret, & Lavinia Albéri. (2004). Midbrain dopaminergic neurons: control of their cell fate by the engrailed transcription factors. Cell and Tissue Research. 318(1). 53–61. 60 indexed citations

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Simon, Horst H., Harald Saueressig, Wolfgang Wurst, Martyn Goulding, & Dennis D.M. O’Leary. (2001). Fate of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons Controlled by the Engrailed Genes. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(9). 3126–3134. 272 indexed citations

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Simon, Horst H., Amata Hornbruch, & Andrew Lumsden. (1995). Independent assignment of antero-posterior and dorso-ventral positional values in the developing chick hindbrain. Current Biology. 5(2). 205–214. 97 indexed citations

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Lee, Kuo-Fen, Horst H. Simon, Hua Chen, et al.. (1995). Requirement for neuregulin receptor erbB2 in neural and cardiac development. Nature. 378(6555). 394–398. 1013 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simon, Horst H., Sarah Guthrie, & Andrew Lumsden. (1994). Regulation of SC1/DM‐GRASP during the migration of motor neurons in the chick embryo brain stem. Journal of Neurobiology. 25(9). 1129–1143. 43 indexed citations

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Simon, Horst H., Stephan G. Klinz, Thomas Fahrig, & Melitta Schachner. (1991). Molecular Association of the Neural Adhesion Molecules L1 and N‐CAM in the Surface Membrane of Neuroblastoma Cells is Shown by Chemical Cross‐linking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 3(7). 634–640. 25 indexed citations

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Louilot, Alain, Khalid Taghzouti, Horst H. Simon, & Michel Le Moal. (1989). Limbic System, Basal Ganglia, and Dopaminergic Neurons. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 33(2-3). 157–161. 27 indexed citations

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